Court Appointed Special Advocates of Lackawanna
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 883010377
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Scranton, PA, USA
- Phone
- 5705583971
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $184,667
- Expenses
- $182,980
- Assets
- $174,844
- Liabilities
- $136,308
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LISA MURPHY (President)
- BENJAMIN ALLMAN (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- LISA MURPHY (President)
- BENJAMIN ALLMAN (Vice President)
- LORI A BARRETT ESQUIRE (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To advocate for children who have experienced abuse and neglect; to give each child hope, support, and encouragement; to enhance their resiliency; and to ensure that their voices are heard until they have safe, permanent, and nurturing homes.
What it reported doing in 2024
To provide a trained volunteer advocate for every child who has experienced abuse and neglect in the lackawanna county dependency court system.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.2%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 93%; rating input score 93
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.9%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.96; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.78; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 52.5% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 41.6% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 56% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.2% of revenue deployed · 93% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $170K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.